On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:27:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:27:57 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Currently the return value of memory_failure() is not passed to userspace, > > which > > is inconvenient for test programs that want to know the result of error > > handling. > > So let's return it to the caller as we already do in MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE case. > > I updated this to mention that it's for madvise(MADV_HWPOISON): > > : Currently the return value of memory_failure() is not passed to userspace > : when madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) is used. This is inconvenient for test > : programs that want to know the result of error handling. So let's return > : it to the caller as we already do in the MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE case.
Thank you. > btw, MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE and MADV_HWPOISON are not documented in that > comment block over sys_madvise(). Fixy please? You might want to > check that no other MADV_foo values have been omitted. OK, I posted the fix patch just now, which also updates about some other madvices. Thanks, Naoya Horiguchi
